Show DEAD BANDITS AND THE BANKERS Objecting to the reward of or 2500 for or every dead bank bandit of or offered offered by the Cook County Bankers Bankers' association E. E E. E Dudding president president president dent of the flue Prisoners' Prisoners Relief Relict society so- so cit ty has directed a letter to the bankers In which bo ho says Statistics show that over seven million dollars was stolen from banks In the United States by bank officials and in 1924 1921 and in that same year It U is shown that bank hank robbers secured less less less' than two million n dollars in cash and negotiable securities So It It appears to this writer that the most of ot the bank robberies in these United States Is committed by of- of officials in n charge of banks In 1024 1921 our society handled over one onehundred onehundred onehundred hundred former bank officials returning re returning re- re returning turning from penal servitude When bandits bandit know that bank officials so frequently rob banks that tempts them to take tahe the risk So S all summed up and pared and pared down flown to brass fc i ass tack tack facts our banks are in more moro danger from the people that conduct the tho banks than they are from the bandits What bat do you ou think of this Idea The action of or the Cook County Bankers Dankers is questionable as it in invites In- In Invites invites vites hasty decision and Is an invitation Invitation tation to shoot and then investigate Investigate gate and nd yet It H may be Justified It Is true banks are being robbed by byI unworthy but the banks are arc doing all in their power tp t stop those wrongs yet jet et in that l I form of of crime lives s arc aro not in involved In- In involved as in bank robberies and there is no alarming apprehension Unless banditry Is checked no form of property will be bo safe uc and life lire itself will be constantly men men- menaced aced and so the bankers are are deal deal- dealing dealing ing with a serious situation in a drastic manner nn |